I am trying to find a SciFi book that I read the first couple of chapters of. It involved two companies racing to come up with some kind of genetic cure and in the process creating a monster or something. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2008 - 6 answers

Help me identify these four short horror stories, based on descriptions of their plots and endings. SPOILERS AHEAD! [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 3 answers

Help me identify this youth science fiction book-filter! [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2006 - 18 answers

Help find a SF book that my friend can't quite recall, but remembers themes of? [more inside]
posted on Sep 1, 2006 - 7 answers

Why is Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle in the SF/fantasy section? [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2006 - 38 answers

Once I read a story about people who could give a disease to computers. Or possibly they could catch this disease through the keyboard. Citizens with this disease, I vaguely recall, were not allowed to use computers without rubber gloves. If you had AIDS or HIV you were protected and allowed unrestricted access to computer keyboards. Does this ring a bell for anyone? [more inside]
posted on Sep 14, 2005 - 1 answers

Who can recommend some good time travel fiction? (Yes, I'm a geek)
posted on Jun 10, 2004 - 46 answers

Like many other geeks here, I grew up reading sci-fi and fantasy. But I gradually got tired of it, because so much of it was poorly written or antithetical to my tastes. But I still yearn for other worlds at times, so I'd be interested in recommendations. [more inside.]
posted on Dec 16, 2003 - 65 answers